Should have tried that first. Yes, it opens with Notepad and you can see the name info easily (i.e. the plaintiff names). So someone could probably extract data from it - that's all I really need to know - is it secure in any way or not. I just have to make a recommendation to the client on how to secure it better.

Thanks all.

>>Going through their support site, it seems as though these tables are "c-tree" tables. I am going to guess that they are not encrypted and that somewhere in these tables I could dig out the information I wanted (if I were a hacker).
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>>Does anyone know if there is a "viewer" for this type of data or does someone need their front end database to access it?
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>I don't know about c-tree files.
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>Did you try opening any files using text editor like Notepad++ ?
>That would show if there is any plain text data visible.